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Making Trump's wall even more pointless!
by rb666 10y ago
Making Trump's wall even more pointless!
- frozenport 10y agoQuite the opposite. He claims to want to secure the border. Anybody who has had their gentiles fondled by TSA might be suprised that you can get stuff over the border but not on a plane. The point is that the border could be a lot stronger.
- scrollaway 10y agoIs it really that surprising that it's harder to secure thousands of miles than it is to secure a few airport gates?
- jsjohnst 10y agoOnce we see actual "security" (rather than a theater production) at an airport gate in the US we can more intelligently answer that question.
- jazoom 10y agoI wonder how the gentiles feel about being fondled.
- frozenport 10y agoProbably the same way my phone felt!
- cm2187 10y agoTrump's wall reminds me the Maginot Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line The Germans simply flew over it...
- rangibaby 10y agoNo, they went around it. The forest next to it was considered to be impassable by tanks (it wasn't).
- nickff 10y agoLargely (wasn't impassible) because of the Belgians' reluctance to create and man a significant defensive barrier against German aggression.
- cm2187 10y agoThey also went around. But the maginot line was designed without air warfare in mind, and the germans easily bombed the lines behind the maginot line.
- lostlogin 10y agoPlanes existed and bombed things prior to the Maginot Line being built. It was also protected against aerial attack, which is kind of intuitive as the French were familiar with just how much explosives could home from the air after ww1 (though generally by by heavy artillery).
- ptaipale 10y agoThe Germans went mostly through Low Countries, violating the neutrality of Netherlands and Belgium, not just Ardennes forest. The Maginot line did not extend to the Belgian border because when building it, the French did not want to offend Belgians. Trump does not seem to hesitate offending anyone, so from that point his walls should be more effective...
- shard972 10y ago> The Germans went mostly through Low Countries, violating the neutrality of Netherlands and Belgium, not just Ardennes forest. Would be pretty interesting to see Mexicans reroute to come through canada. I say it in joking, but if you fly to canada and cross over into the US, whats the difference?
- xienze 10y agoI mean yeah, we really should just leave the border wide open since after all, if you can't stop border shenanigans 100% you shouldn't bother at all. Might as well remove all our border patrol agents as well since a non-zero number of people still get through despite their presence.
- cooper12 10y agoNice false dichotomy you built up there friendo :^). It's either waste taxpayer money on a useless expensive wall or have no border oversight at all huh? (you're also showing how ignorant you are about how much security already goes into our border)
- shripadk 10y agoWhile at it, might as well remove the door from our homes. It doesn't stop a determined burglar picking the door lock or breaking it open anyways so why bother? /s
- aluhut 10y agoOr, just keep it being the border as it was before?
- ajmurmann 10y ago
- djsumdog 10y agoIt's a talking point to make you angry. The wall is really a fence which is really an idea. Ideas keep people distracted and that way no one cares that the CIA funnels weapons and money into many Central/South American countries and then funnels drugs out of those same regions; regardless of whether it's a D or an R in the <insert any branch of government here>.
- erikbye 10y agoHm, there is already quite a lot of fencing in place. 930 kilometers of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_barrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_b...